oblivion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   total forgetfulness

   They sought the great oblivion of sleep to avoid thinking about the day's traumatic events.

2. 2
   noun

   The state of forgetting completely, of being oblivious, unconscious, unaware, as when sleeping, drunk, or dead.

   He regularly drank himself into oblivion.

3. 3
   noun

   The state of being completely forgotten, of being reduced to a state of non-existence, extinction, or nothingness, including through war and destruction. (Figuratively) for an area like hell, a wasteland.

   Due to modern technology, many more people and much more information will not slip into oblivion, contrary to what happened throughout history until now.

4. 4
   noun

   the state of being disregarded or forgotten

Inherited from Middle English oblivion, from Anglo-Norman oblivion, from Latin oblīviō (“forgetfulness”), from oblīvīscor (“to forget”).

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